Goldsmiths College
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Goldsmiths College (founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name.
The college is situated in New Cross, a highly populated area of south-east London. The college's main building was originally created in 1843 by the architect John Shaw Jr (1803-1870). At Shaw's time the building was the Royal Naval School however this was later sold to the Goldsmiths company. In addition to this the college also occupies many more modern buildings, including an Arts building recently designed by Will Alsop.
Goldsmiths specialises in courses and research relating to creativity and culture, and has a reputation for producing visual artists, particularly those collectively known as YBA. This reputation was largely established by the influence of Michael Craig-Martin, Jon Thompson and Nick De Ville as teaching staff. Professor Geoffrey Crossick was appointed Warden of the college in 2005 following the death of Ben Pimlott, who had become Warden in 1998. Alumni are members of the Goldsmiths Society.
Notable alumni
- Uzma Ahmed, politician
- Bernd Behr, artist
- John Cale, musician
- Julian Clary, comedian
- Damon Albarn, musician, frontman of Blur
- Graham Coxon, musician, formerly with Blur
- Alex James, musician, member of Blur
- Dave Rowntree, musician, member of Blur
- Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, artist collective
- Ian Davenport, artist
- Grenville Davey, artist
- Andrew Fadairo, financier
- Anya Gallaccio, artist
- Frances Grey, actress
- Damien Hirst, artist
- Gary Hume, artist
- Linton Kwesi Johnson, poet, musician
- Tessa Jowell, politician
- Michael Landy, artist
- Michael Lavelle, Managing Director, Head of Equity Capital Markets, Citigroup
- Sarah Lucas, artist
- Javier Marchán, artist
- Kerry McCarthy, politician
- Mark McGowan, performance artist
- Malcolm McLaren, music manager, notably of the Sex Pistols
- Steve McQueen, artist
- Gladys Mitchell, author
- Brian Molko, singer with Placebo
- Cathy de Monchaux, artist
- Julian Opie, artist
- Simon Patterson, 1996 Turner Prize nominee
- Mary Quant, fashion designer
- Bridget Riley, artist
- Sam Taylor-Wood. artist
- Simon Tegala, artist
- Mark Wallinger, artist
- Gillian Wearing, artist
- Catherine Yass, artist
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